The huge August 26 demonstration at the Luneta Park in Manila and various other places here and abroad was an indicator of the Filipino people's widespread anger at the pork barrel system. Through this protest, the people demonstrated their wrath at the bureaucratic plunder of public funds and their use by the ruling Aquino regime to dominate reactionary politics.

The pork barrel issue has further laid bare the ruling classes' greed and underscored their deliberate refusal to heed the people's grievances and their apathy at the glaring gap between their affluence and the hard, deprived and wretched lives of the toiling masses.